[RKDinOKC]

There are a couple of reasons those companies have those safety rules and regulations.

It's all idiots at their company getting injured and making outrageous claims (lawyers) followed by lawyers and insurance companies trying to keep the company and the insurance companies from being bankrupted. Lawyers were intentionally named twice!

We had a case from Louisiana where a well site blew up in a ball of fire killing the worker on the site.

In LA you can't use evidence or findings from other cases on the same incident in a case. So what happens is lawyers, on the behalf of the injured party, sue every manufacture of every piece of equipment on the site. Most oil and gas companies just write it off as part of doing business and settle out of court. The lawyers end up getting most of the settlement amounts paid not the injured party or their survivors.

Our company's product could not have caused any kind of explosion or fireball so as a matter of principle the founder spent as much or more than a typical settement to keep from paying off the wrongful suit. The lawyers had already gotten 10's of millions in out of court settlements from the other manufacturers. The case was drug out by the dead guy's lawyers (they receive most of the settlement) for over 15 years trying to get more money "for the family"!

Finally I made a video animation showing how our products worked on the site and what would happen if they failed. Once the Jury saw the video and understood our products that were used on the site the case was thrown out.

Interestingly enough it was a production gas and oil wells site with separators and treaters that heat the goop coming out of the ground to separate out the petroleum and gas. Oil and gas on productions site is under pressure and can be very volatile. The guy was found laying dead and burnt on the site with a lighter in his hand and traces of a cigarette in his mouth. The were signs all over the site, caution flamible, explosive, etc, no open flames and no smoking. Personally I don't feel any of the manufactures should have paid a penny.

It's the lawyers getting involved in incidents like that that make insurance premiums higher, cause stupid saftey regulations, and drive up the end user costs of things.